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Obesity More Dangerous Than Terrorism

The countries in the world today is too focused on the eradication of terrorism, but there is a problem that is not less dangerous problem of obesity and lifestyle diseases that kill millions of people. The warnings about the dangers of obesity emerged in the international conference in Oxford Health Alliance Summit in Sydney on Monday (25 / 2). The conference also recommended the importance of overcoming the emphasis on the dangers of obesity. Deadly factors like poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise should be a priority in combating the growing epidemic of chronic diseases that could have prevented it.

A professor of health law in the United States, Lawrence Gostin argues that global terrorism is a real threat, but a lower risk of obesity, diabetes and smoking-related diseases.

“Since 11 September, still limping from one crisis to another crisis, that is, of course, fear of society. If you are less interested in issues of terrorism is that our obesity epidemic in secret to kill millions of people World wide shadow. pay little attention to this problem, “said Gostin.
Annual Meeting of the Oxford Health Alliance funded by the University of Oxford will be held in kelimakalinya. Present at this meeting of leading experts from academia, government, economics, law, economics and urban planning in an effort to change the voice.

Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 388 million people worldwide die from chronic diseases in the next 10 years.
“There’s a political paralysis in the response to this issue,” said Gostin, who is also advisor to the United States Government and a professor at Georgetown University and Johns.

He noted that efforts to prevent obesity and its influence seldom occur in the campaigning activities of the U.S. presidential elections.

“He started the suffering of the people are always afraid, when you consider that obesity could shorten the average life expectancy of an entire generation. This leads to the first investment in life expectancy since data collection in 1990,” .

The meeting also highlighted some things like the fact that there are some risks to health and care of government and media. Another fact is that heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes and cancer, it is estimated that 60 percent of the cause of death worldwide. The new threat to the health of a case of SARS, avian flu, which is HIV / AIDS, terrorism, bioterrorism and climate change so dramatically and emotionally sugguh.

The conference will be born next Wednesday at an end, “Sydney” Resolution “and urged the government and industry to take action to prevent millions of premature deaths from chronic diseases.

“The way we live today makes you sick, makes the planet is sick and is not sustainable,” said Ruth Colagiuri, co-director of Oxford Asia Pacific.

The Sydney resolution focuses on four topics including the importance of cities in the healthy lifestyle, healthy lifestyles, such as walking, cycling and reduces carbon monoxide emissions from motor vehicles.

Physical inactivity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, and it is estimated that, worldwide, causing 1.9 million deaths a year, said Tony Capon, professor of Health Studies from Macquarie University in Australia.

The resolution also stresses the importance of reducing levels of sugar, fat and salt in food for fresh food and cheap, easily accessible, and intensified global efforts to reduce smoking.

Overweight pregnant, Could Trigger Big Baby

berat badan 8When  pregnant every woman experiencing weight gain. Keep in mind, however, increase the weight of not more than 18 kg. What article?

If you are pregnant right now, immediately weighed. Is it still within normal limits? In fact there is no standard rule about how an increase in maternal weight during pregnancy. In other words, every pregnant woman may experience different increases.

However, recent research in the United States recommends that pregnant women monitor weight gain to no more than 18 pounds. The reason is, if more than that, he doubled risk of giving birth big babies. The baby is great according to the Association of American Obstetrics and Gynecology is a baby weighing 4 kilograms or more. While the WHO says, the average weight and normal healthy baby at birth is 3.2 kilograms.

In a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers involve participants more than 40,000 American women and their babies. Once analyzed, data showed that one in five women experienced an increase in excess weight during pregnancy, which make it risky double big baby.

The case of gestational diabetes (diabetes caused by pregnancy) is also often the cause of babies are born with excess weight. However, other facts in this study revealed that women who experienced an increase of more than 18 pounds still great potential to have the baby even if he did not have gestational diabetes.

“Given the number of women who experience an increase in weight of more than 18 pounds during pregnancy, the advice to avoid obesity during pregnancy is an important health messages to be distributed,” said Dr. Teresa Hillier, a staff researcher of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon.

Hillier insisted, bumil that excess weight increases risk having a large baby, which also means the baby’s future risk grows with the problem of being overweight or obese. For pregnant women, fetuses at risk too much complicate the birth process, such as increasing the possibility perobekan or vaginal bleeding, and the possibility to give birth by caesarean section. While the fetus itself at risk of “stuck” in the shoulder or collarbone broken during delivery.

In these studies, Hiller and his team analyzed data from 41,540 medical records of women who gave birth in Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii in the period 1995-2003. A total of gestational diabetes is detected and as much as 5.4 percent of which is handled through diet, exercise, and if necessary be given insulin to control blood sugar levels.

Overall, as many as 20 percent of the bumil gained weight more than 18 pounds of baby. While pregnant women with normal body weight increase in the number of babies less than 12 percent.

The most high-risk groups is that bumil weight increased more than 18 kg and gestational diabetes, which is nearly 30 percent of this group of big babies. While the normal weight as well bumil diabetes who gave birth to a large number of only 13.5 percent range.

Researchers reveal, these findings suggest women should avoid excessive weight increase during pregnancy and pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes, also should try to keep weight gain no more than 18 pounds.

Case of body weight increase during pregnancy had continued to increase during the last two decades, and researchers speculate that it is likely related to the obesity epidemic that occurred since childhood.